Friday, October 17, 2008

Aim High

I recently mentioned professor Robert Hargraves presentation "Aim High". Aim high presents a vision that Kirk Sorensen and I share with many other people. We believe that world energy problems can be solved through the use a revolutionary nuclear technology, the Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactor. I have known about this for a long time because my father was in on the ground floor of the development of the idea. (No I am not going to make any money from this.) The LFTR uses far less fuel that conventional reactors, can be built in factories, produces almost no nuclear waste, and can produce all of the energy we need. In addition LFTRs are less expensive than conventional nuclear power plants.